I can't help but wonder if Pink will watch Naza:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAZA_(film) My guess is she will not.
Over the years, I've been lucky enough to have friends demonstrate to me that looking *into* my own stupidity
is a useful thing. Pink's invocation of a particular kind of "fear", using the word
"scare", which sets it outside many more abstract conceptions, makes me think she won't or can't
actually look into it in any intra-personal way. My guess is she's guided (here, not in other narrative
flows) more by social context than intra-personal context ... emphasized by the "mom" label, I
think.
So I think you're being too generous in the "*tried* to be de-escalating". I saw that
part of her message as the kind of non-apology apology you see from "canceled" people. It
was (empty) rhetorical cover from actually considering Palestinian victims, especially the
innocents systematically eradicated by Israel's *systemic* methods ... those methods traumatizing
not only brown people, but the very Israelis executing the methods.
As with the so very stupid rhetoric around "socialism" in our US election
cycle, the distinction is about systemic infrastructure (class, policy/procedure/orders)
versus individual experience(s), not left-right, liberal-conservative,
acceleration-doomer. Some of us cogs in the machine exhibit our free wi[ggl|l]l[e] more
enthusiastically than others of us.
On 9/14/26 9:58 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
glen sed:
If so, I have to go back to one of my favorite quotes: "Stupidity should be painful." I
mean, yes, I do have an irrational reaction to things like lotus seed pods. But OMG, it's *because*
of that reaction that I look at them so frequently. What kind of "fear" does Pink
experience? It's just baffling, ridiculous even.
I am not clear if what you call "ridiculous" is Pink feeling fear, or Pink
expressing it publicly in response to Macklamore expressing what he did publicly?
I'm probably the wrong one to try to make sense of your feelings, or Pink's
feelings, though I am more able to hear Macklamore's apparent feelings.
Your "free the Proud Boys" example is apt for me, however...
I have not use for the likes of the Proud Boys (or virtually anyone "flying colors" with
a violent habit) and hearing someone promote "freeing them" can give me a quiver of
discomfort.
I'm not generally directly threatened by such in the way "Pink as a Jewish Mom" probably
does if her focus is more on Hamas' actions on Oct 7 than than that of the IDF/(un)armed Jewish
Settlers executing/threatening violence. On 9/12/2001 I was aware that "yet another"
affiliated terrorist group might target my locale (i.e. LANL) for any number of reasons, I was also
able to recognize some of the reasons they might *choose* my locale for such and what some of their
righteous (if reactive) motives might be.
I thought Pink's statement was pretty authentic and *tried* to be de-escalating, stating specifically that
*she* wasn't calling for or endorsing the implied censorship, yet honestly acknowledging the *potency* of the
implications TO HER and HERS. My hope would be that her statement could be an opening for other Jewish
(American?) mothers with the same gut reaction to talk to one another and ask more honestly "what are we
afraid of?" , "what conditions brought us to this point?". I suspect the vilification of
Jews in Nazi Germany had good German Mothers quivering when they heard whispers of "free the
Jews?", maybe especially after a (relatively rare?) partisan (re)action to the Nazi's which spilled over
onto civiilians... the propoganda material of that era (not unlike post Civil War South) was pretty ugly,
designed to elicit fear and disgust.
Re: your trypophobia, I experience a mild trypophilia which may be some
cognitive layer defense mechanism? maybe the same mechanism as stockholm
syndrome, or human's general fascination with dangerous predators?
I have a similar reaction (I think) to threatening *groups*... a conflicted
fascination with street gangs, biker gangs, authoritarian regimes, rogue/failed
states... I don't wish *more of such things* on the world, but do find them
worthy of some kind of open-scrutiny that maybe transcends my instant knee-jerk
reaction? Both of these probably undermine *true empathy* but perhaps are a
weak standin?
/"We all got to be the way we are somehow"?/
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